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Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra

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Calderbank, AR; Hanlon, P; Sundaram, S
Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
January 1, 1994

We consider, for a given complex parameter a, the nonassociative product defined on the tensor algebra of á-dimensional complex vector space by the left-normed bracketing is defined recursively to be the bracketing sequence The linear subspace spanned by all multilinear left-normed bracketings of homogeneous degree n, in the basis vectors is then an 5M-module Vn(a). Note that Vn(l) is the Lie representation Lie. of S. afforded by the áth-degree multilinear component of the free Lie algebra. Also, K.(-l) is the subspace of simple Jordan products in the free associative algebra as studied by Robbins [Ro]. Among our preliminary results is the observation that when a is not a root of unity, the module V.(a) is simply the regular representation. Thrall [T] showed that the regular representation of the symmetric group S. can be written as a direct sum of tensor products of symmetrised Lie modules Vi. In this paper we determine the structure of the representations V.(a) as a sum of a subset of these Vx. The Vx, indexed by the partitions X of n, are defined as follows: let m! be the multiplicity of the part i in X, let Lie, be the Lie representation of 5, and let ik denote the trivial character of the symmetric group denote the character of the wreath product Sm.[Si] of Smiacting on copies of. Then Vxis isomorphic to the Our theorem now states that when a is a primitive pi root of unity, the module V.(a) is isomorphic to the direct sum where X runs. © 1994 American Mathematical Society.

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Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

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0002-9947

Publication Date

January 1, 1994

Volume

341

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1

Start / End Page

315 / 333

Related Subject Headings

  • General Mathematics
  • 0102 Applied Mathematics
  • 0101 Pure Mathematics
 

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Calderbank, A. R., Hanlon, P., & Sundaram, S. (1994). Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 341(1), 315–333. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1153011-7
Calderbank, A. R., P. Hanlon, and S. Sundaram. “Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 341, no. 1 (January 1, 1994): 315–33. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1153011-7.
Calderbank AR, Hanlon P, Sundaram S. Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 1994 Jan 1;341(1):315–33.
Calderbank, A. R., et al. “Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 341, no. 1, Jan. 1994, pp. 315–33. Scopus, doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1153011-7.
Calderbank AR, Hanlon P, Sundaram S. Representations of the symmetric group in deformations of the free lie algebra. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 1994 Jan 1;341(1):315–333.
Journal cover image

Published In

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

DOI

ISSN

0002-9947

Publication Date

January 1, 1994

Volume

341

Issue

1

Start / End Page

315 / 333

Related Subject Headings

  • General Mathematics
  • 0102 Applied Mathematics
  • 0101 Pure Mathematics